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Basically Lotti's story from Ledoyt in a blender. How you feel about Ledoyt being put in a blender depends on how you feel about Ledoyt.
An interesting book set in California just before, and during, the Great Depression. The tale involves an abusive father, a young girl pretending to be a boy, her older sister, and a man who is a horse. The book is said to be for children, but the topics raised, and many of the settings would be more suitable for readers in their late teens. Among the themes explored are death, poverty, the loss of a parent, physical and mental abuse and sexual assault. Heavy themes for any reader.
The book follows the life of Bobby, who is a girl, I should point that out early on. Oh, did I mention Spoilers? Sorry. Anyway, so here I am once more, having read yet another book written in the first-person. It’s getting old, really. At least The Book Thief still had an omniscient, albeit first-person narrator. But I digress.We follow Bobby through her life in her home in California; how she met Mister Boots, the title character, who is a horse but is also a man, but is really a horse; how Bob...
Like a knife through silk, every word selected for maximum effect. Utterly mesmerizing.
During the Great Depression, ten-year-old orphan Bobby befriends an injured were-horse whom she nurses back to health.
Hard to rate this one. Like the other book by the author I recently read, the flow of time is not always clear. And I don't know if that's intentional. A sentence here and there like "Weeks passed" might help this simpleminded reader. For taking a chance (versus what is out there now) I give this four stars. Really "odd," and I mean that as a straight-up compliment (there was a bit of Bradbury and Something Wicked). Taking the subject matter out, the narrative can, as mentioned, jump and stumble...
Did I enjoy it? I did. I waffled between 3 and 4 stars for this, so I suppose my rating is really a 3.5 rounded up.Would I read it again? Meh, probably not.Who would I recommend it to? I don't actually know. Fans of Carol Emshwiller? People who like fantasy books set in the 1930s and featuring a magician and his children? People who are looking for something pretty short but engaging to fill the time between when they finish a book and when they go to the library to get a new one?Any other thoug...
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